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Do not DL the app, use the #website

Beyond the Hype: The Real Reasons Companies Want You on Their App

The answer, in short, is data. A lot of it. And access. A whole lot more of that too

What can a website on your #browser really get from you? Unless you manually upload your contact info, or there's a serious #security #vulnerability , a website's access to your phone's deeper functions is quite limited

Apps, on the other hand, are a different beast entirely
#privacy

idiallo.com/blog/dont-download

Ibrahim Diallo BlogDo not download the app, use the websiteThe 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed

DATE: July 25, 2025 at 06:09PM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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Patients Still Struggle With Full Access to Health Info t.co/ZF07u47fHq

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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.

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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering

DATE: July 25, 2025 at 06:01PM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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Patients Still Struggle With Full Access to Their #Health Info: Why? t.co/ZF07u47NwY
#HIPAA #CuresAct #HITECH

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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.

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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering

DATE: July 25, 2025 at 05:18PM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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Swiss-Based #Healthcare Network #AMEOS Responding to Cyberattack t.co/pViSe2Adjy

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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.

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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering

Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful #breaches of multiple #developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed to unsuspecting users.
#security #supplychain #opensource

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Gloved hands manipulate a laptop with a skull and crossbones on the display.
Ars Technica · Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of handBy Dan Goodin

DATE: July 25, 2025 at 08:45AM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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Whatever happened to #ransomware group #Pysa, which attacked hundreds of #healthcare and other entities just a couple years ago? t.co/qVZhwIlloX

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Articles can be found by scrolling down the page at healthcareinfosecurity.com/ under the title "Latest"

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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.

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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering

#Hackers —hope to defect to #Russia ? Don’t #Google#defecting to Russia.”

To the casual observer, #cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses.

They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet.

They cover their tracks using technology that is arcane to most people—VPNs, #encrypted #chat apps, onion routing, aliases in dark web forums.
#privacy #security #vpn #tor #onionrouting #darkweb

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Illustration of ones and zeros being encrypted.
Ars Technica · Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”By Nate Anderson

DATE: July 24, 2025 at 05:15PM
SOURCE: HEALTHCARE INFO SECURITY

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@HHSOCR Fines #Surgery Practice $250K in #Ransomware Breach t.co/IznsqqwPdJ #HIPAA #NewYork #Syracuse

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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information.

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#security #healthcare #doctors #itsecurity #hacking #doxxing #psychotherapy #securitynews #psychotherapist #mentalhealth #psychiatry #hospital #socialwork #datasecurity #webbeacons #cookies #HIPAA #privacy #datanalytics #healthcaresecurity #healthitsecurity #patientrecords @infosec #telehealth #netneutrality #socialengineering

#FederalReserve staff blamed #tariffs & #inflation for the high cost of the renovation of the central bank’s HQ Thurs & defended many of the upgrades as necessary for #security & maintaining the building’s historic architecture.

The explanation for the cost of the project came on a nearly 3-hr visit to the site before #Trump was set to visit to view the construction. The $2.5B project, which started in 2022, is being used by Trump to target the Fed chair, #JeromePowell.

nytimes.com/2025/07/24/busines

The construction site at the Federal Reserve, where renovations require as many as 800 construction workers over two shifts per day.
The New York Times · Why Is the Fed Renovation So Expensive? Staff Cite Tariffs and Inflation.By Alan Rappeport

Windows market share in Germany drops to 69.78%, down nearly 10 points in a year 📉

Meanwhile, macOS rises to 19.59%, driven by user demand for privacy & seamless integration 🍏

Linux more than doubles to 5.49%, reflecting growing interest in open-source, secure, and flexible systems 🐧

#Linux#Desktop#FOSS
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@alpine Supposedly, business accounts are protected by “enterprise data protection”. The last bullet point in this header of their documentation states that one implication of this is what “your data isn’t used to train foundation models”.

As far as I can tell from the second link, “foundation models” are their largest models that their smaller, purpose-built models are based on. To me, this leaves a clear loophole to enable training any of their more niche models on even *enterprise data*.

Let me be clear. I know firsthand that this was enabled without warning for companies with NDAs working on critical infrastructure and hospitals with HIPAA laws to follow. As far as I can tell right now, this looks like a clear attempt at training their AIs on protected information.

And this doesn’t even cover the case of people signing into their work computers with personal Microsoft accounts, opening the door for company and patient data to be scraped with even fewer legal guardrails.

#Privacy #security #infosec #BigTech

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copi

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-iss

Microsoft Learn
learn.microsoft.comEnterprise data protection in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot ChatLearn what enterprise data protection means for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.